James Black, former Representative from South Carolina's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1843-1845	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to May 1848, Black missed 284 of 1,323 roll call votes, which is 21.5%. This is better than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1848. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	44	32.4%	70^th
1844 Mar-May	207	88	42.5%	87^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	13	17.1%	39^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	27	15.9%	35^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	20	13.4%	25^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	37	14.1%	19^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	8	15.7%	36^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	177	28	15.8%	16^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	90	15	16.7%	44^th
1848 Apr-Jul	4	4	100.0%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000